The City of Guelph, and it’s various partners and agencies, put out a lot of information on a weekly basis, and while it all ends up on the City’s website somewhere, wouldn’t it be easier to just scroll through it all on one easy-to-read article on Guelph Politico here…? Continue reading “CITY PAGES: Kitchen Opening, Last Call for Medals, and Backyard Theatre”
For this week’s podcast, we’re taking it on the road! There are two big protests of a sort happening in Guelph right now, one is technically a strike, and the other is an encampment on campus. Both are local stories with implications beyond the city limits, both are examples of renewed interest in direct action, and both started at around the same time. So how are things going out there, and are these actions having an impact? Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #422 – Walk The Line”
There’s been a lot of discussion recently about boosting Guelph’s tourism profile. In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, cities are working hard to rebuild their shattered tourism industries and Guelph is no exception, which is why the City of Guelph this week launched the Tourism Grants Program, designed to support the development and attraction of new tourism initiatives across Guelph. So here’s an idea… Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #REPEAT- Have You Considered “Dark Tourism”?”
The City of Guelph, and it’s various partners and agencies, put out a lot of information on a weekly basis, and while it all ends up on the City’s website somewhere, wouldn’t it be easier to just scroll through it all on one easy-to-read article on Guelph Politico here…? Continue reading “CITY PAGES: Cyber Incident, Library Report and Get a Rabbit!”
The City of Guelph, and it’s various partners and agencies, put out a lot of information on a weekly basis, and while it all ends up on the City’s website somewhere, wouldn’t it be easier to just scroll through it all on one easy-to-read article on Guelph Politico here…? Continue reading “CITY PAGES: Waste Feedback Wanted, New Lang School Dean, and Artists Wanted”
In these waning days of 2023, we know what you all need: Another end of the year list! It was another busy year in the news business here in Guelph, a lot of meetings, and issues, and debates, and announcements, and groundbreakings… How do you make sense of it all? With a Top 10 list! So let’s look at the year in Guelph from great progress to big protests, and all the issues that we mulled over, and will likely mull over some more in 2024. Continue reading “Top 10 Guelph News Stories of 2023”
November’s Guelph Police Services Board meeting was comparatively low key compared to the last couple of months. The big item of the month was the annual report from atop Gordon Hill and the present state of the Campus Safety office and their team of auxiliary officers. Some interesting things to report there, and there’s the usual verbal update from Chief Gord Cobey. To see those details let’s do the recap… Continue reading “RECAP: Police Board Gets Update About Campus Policing”
After passing the Guelph Police Services budget for 2024-2027 last month, this November meeting of the Police Services Board seems positively light. Still, there’s some stuff worth checking at this meeting including an annual update from the Guelph Police’s counterparts up on the hill at the U of G, an update about how this year’s budget is going, plus the usual report from the chief. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Guelph Police Services Board for November 16, 2023”
Maybe you’ve heard the term “dark tourism”, there’s a whole Netflix series about it, but you don’t have to go abroad to somewhere famous to get a taste of dark tourism. Would it surprise you to learn that we have a hot little dark tourism industry right here in Guelph? As we approach Halloween on Tuesday, perhaps it’s time we appreciated just what kind of a sorted little town we have here, historically speaking. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #394 – Guelph, After Dark”
This is one of those episodes that’s based on events that predate many of us that have come to call Guelph home in the last few decades. It’s also a story about land issues, and the desire to protect sensitive land from development. It’s had a lot of names over the years including the Kortright Waterfowl Park, the Niska Lands, and the Hanlon Creek Conservation Area, but the story around this property is just as complicated to sort out. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #392 – Caution’s Creek Part 1: The Past”
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